April232015

April192015

What Calgary Expo did to the Honey Badgers is unacceptable. They have lost a potential future customer in me.

My heart goes out to the Honey Badger crew. I was upset to see that video of Alison crying. While I'm not an MRA, I do enjoy their show and I think their commentary is pretty spot-on; I relate to them a lot as well. Before discovering their program, #GamerGate, and various anti-SJW sites in general, I was made to feel insecure by my more politically correct peers because I didn't conform to their worldview. I was made to feel like I was dumb and wrong as a non-white woman. To see and hear these other women who think like me and have had the same experiences reminds me that I'm not alone and that nothing's wrong with me.

March262015

March232015

“The call for realism seems to be the fallout from the movies. In the
movies, it’s nearly impossible to create costumes that fit as well and
look as good as those in the comics. That’s an advantage artists have
when putting lines on paper: they can have clothes be perfectly
form-fitting and we can see every muscle and sinew, even through cloth.
This means that an artist can draw a far prettier picture than could
possibly appear on film.

The disadvantage is, of course, that if lines are added to costumes,
then an artist needs to draw those lines again and again, whereas in the
movies that’s not a big deal. Since movies are incapable of making
superhero outfits that fit and look as good as the ones in the comic
books, they have to make alterations in order to make up for that.
Theirs is a compromise. Our mistake is following their lead as though it
is a lead instead of a compromise.

This started out as comics emulating movies, but it’s expanded. And
for a large part the argument is that it “makes costumes more
realistic.” When Batman is on screen he wears armor, so Batman
in the comics has to wear armor now, and then Superman has to and Wonder
Woman and it just gets silly. The audience expects this and justifies
it, arguing that, “of course Batman would wear armor!”

But the reality is this: armor is ridiculous, not realistic! One of
the reasons superheroes wore tights in the first place is because
acrobats wore tights, and why did acrobats wear tights? So they could move! Modern actors have admitted that they can hardly move in the Batman
suits. In some cases the actors couldn’t even turn their heads: they had
to move their entire bodies in order to look from side to side. One
famously admitted that anybody could beat the crap out of him in that
suit!

Runners wear shorts, wrestlers and boxers wear shorts. When Bruce Lee
gets into a fight he takes his shirt off, he doesn’t put a football
uniform on. Is Batman designed to take a blow or land one? Is he playing defense or offense? The Batman
who existed for decades was prepared to do battle with criminals, but he
came ready to fight, not cower. When villains attacked, he landed the
first blow and because he was Batman, that was frequently the last blow as well. But that was before he had “realistic” armor to slow him down!

I know this is #GamerGate related and thus more focused on video games than comic books, but I also feel like many of the issues that #GamerGate focuses on do overlap/parallel with what goes on in the comic book community as well, both in the sense that SJWs have taken over and have forced the same values on both communities but also in the sense that geeks are geeks, and a lot of gamers tend to be comic book and/or anime/manga fans as well.

But of course, it's a good cause and thus I feel like anything like it needs more promotion and circulation.